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AI and ESG: risk or opportunity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainability strategies. AI tools can optimise energy consumption, produce more accurate climate modelling, monitor deforestation, screen candidates without bias. AI can be applied to produce a potential improvement in resource management through asset ...

American Century Investments on impact investing and best in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... cobalt mines for cell phone components - something referred to as "artisan mining". She said the EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains are of concern to emerging economies and may negatively impact on the just transition. "In the EU, the ...

Investors flag decarbonisation, real world impacts as priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... climate data is a challenge, and biodiversity data is a challenge on a different scale." NTAM have selected water and deforestation to focus on as frameworks like TNFD are evolving because they are areas that have more data disclosure and data coverage ...

Australian Ethical divests from Lendlease over koala concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... across other sectors - the financial sector and the retail sector, for example, and thinking in particular around deforestation because that is the key driver around nature loss and is an issue that is pretty important in Australia," she added. Image ...

Chubb Review recommends reforms to ACCU governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... specific examples to provide insight. "The Chubb Review did suggest there be no more ACCUs issued in respect of avoided deforestation projects," Derrington noted. "However, it somewhat skirted around the reasons why - rather than addressing the criticisms ...

Australia joins COP27 forests partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... systems, streamlining and scaling carbon markets to starting a transition toward sustainable land use and ending deforestation, Brand said. However, a strong carbon price would catalyse the sector even further. "We have seen now, carbon price signals ...

New Forests African forestry fund receives US$200m in investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... new fund focused on developing sustainable growth of the African forestry sector, thereby creating jobs, reducing deforestation, and addressing climate change," said Norfund chief executive officer Tellef Thorleifsson. Finnfund chief executive officer ...

Podcast: Calling "enough" on incremental sustainability progress with Mathew Nelson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... report points to declines in the Living Planet Index, in freshwater, increases in atmospheric concentrations of CO2, deforestation and ocean acidification. EY Oceania chief sustainability officer Mathew Nelson joins to explain why keeping on with the ...

La Trobe Financial certified by Climate Action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... Australian native reforestation activities such as the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor, Vintage 2020, and avoided deforestation projects such as the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve Project, Indonesia, Vintage 2014. "We have a commitment to reducing ...

EY calls for "fundamental revisit" of corporate sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... report points to declines in the Living Planet Index, in freshwater, increases in atmospheric concentrations of CO2, deforestation and ocean acidification. The statistics speak for themselves, and there is not any indicator - they're all in decline and ...